I'm kinda bummed I don't live close enough to Brooklyn to check out the bar "Barbes." Give a listen to this piece from NPR.
And if you like the style/mini-genre, they have some songs here.
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About Me
- Jason Thomas
- I play records at WXRT in Chicago. 93.1 on the FM dial. 93xrt.com as well.
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Hey Jason,
Thanks for the intro to these guys. I noticed they are playing here in Sept. at the 'Chicago World Music Festival.' Details are unavailable as of yet...
Dear Jason T.
You are absolutely right. NPR can provide an entire hour or more of virtually uninterrupted discussion/music of worthy musicians that commercial radio cannot. Perhaps you, Jason, will one day close the gap between the discussion and the absence (on NPR) of enough sound to spark the hearts of those who love music. And wish to know about those who create the music.
What I know from NPR: All true Musicians have stories to tell. The stories add to the mystique of the music we love to hear. NPR, at this time, can discuss music/interview artists but sadly, provide very limited exposure to the music.
XRT gives us the music, and sometimes, as in interviews during club appearances, some sense of an artist's/band's mind.
We absolutely have to hear the music. And then, it's infinitely entrancing to know how/why the music came to be.
Perhaps NPR and commercial radio will always be partially deficient in the playing/telling the story of music. I don't know.
Jason, don't move to Brooklyn! My very best friend did. I miss him.
You've got every opportunity, here in Chicago, to make this city a true musical Nirvana. We've an excellent history, the CSO, excellent venues, and Chicago is so completely accessible! There's a zeitgeist . . . you're part of it and Chicago is poised to proclaim the Music.
Stay here and help make it happen.
I think I missed the point of the post, first time around.
Public Televsion provides Soundstage, Austin City Limits, airs interesting documentaries about musicians, and laudably, aired the Crosssroads Concert of July '07 that was completely ignored by 'XRT. So I imagine, that in NYC, public radio is doing interesting things. Well, why not in Chicago? It's as tho NPR/WTTW and XRT are on parallel tracks, each providing great material, but neither the complete story. I must say that I get a great deal of background info later in the the night, from Tom Marker, Richard Milne and of course Marty Lennartz.
The Crossroads concert was the finest I've ever attended, and because XRT was not involved, you guys did not promote it/discuss it, and I felt the lack.
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